What device did Alexander Graham Bell create that changed communications forever?

• telephone
• telegraph
• Internet
• electrical services

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The airplane was invented by:

• The Wright Brothers
• Thomas Edison
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Mercedes Benz

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The Bessemer process, invented by Henry Bessemer, was created to produce...

• cotton
• peanuts
• steel
• electricity

Who invented the telegraph in 1840?

• James Hargreaves
• John Deer
• Samuel Morse
• John Montressor

Who invented the first automobile, assembly line?

• Cyrus McCormick
• Henry Ford
• Samuel Morse
• Alexander Graham Bell

Explain the impact electricity had on factories.

• Factories had to close down early.
• Factories could remain open 24 hours a day.
• People began moving back to the countryside.
• People could only go to the factories in the morning.

Invented electric lightbulb

• Coach Webb
• Thomas Edison
• Coach Drummond
• Ben Franklin

The assembly line allowed a much more efficient  ______________ of goods.

• mass transportation
• mass production

Rockefeller created Standard Oil Trust to

• protect small oil firms
• increase competition among oil refining companies
• control prices and practices in the oil refining business
• distribute donations to charitable causes

The business practice used during the late 1800's to eliminate competition was 

• developing overseas markets
• paying high wages to their workers
• forming monopolies or trusts
• increasing prices of their products